Converting Web Site projects to Web Application Project

Last week I attended converting our web site projects to web application projects. The conversion had two steps. First step is to upgrade the projects to .NET 3.5 framework and then convert to web application project to set up auto build deployment for all our projects and to maintain uniformity among our products.

The conversion of web site projects to web application project was not a smooth as I think before in my case as the projects are too complex. I followed the steps mentioned in http://webproject.scottgu.com/CSharp/Migration2/Migration2.aspx. In some instances the global.asax file need to be dropped and recreated but don't ask 'why'.

As a side note, if you want to know the web application project and web site project in detail Vishal has posted a blog entry @ http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/2009/08/web-application-project-vs-web-site.html and very useful.